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I liked the picnic scene with the lawn darts, but the rest of the Jackass stuff was kind of dull. I really got the warm family feel of the Filmore Graves wake, so Chase is really going to be quite a downer, isn't he? I wish Blaine had dumped more cement on top of his Dad, leaving him alive just doesn't seem socially responsible. What if Timmy falls down that well?

I like the actor and he has a lot of charisma but neither Lucifer nor Crowley seemed to be going anywhere as characters and repeated the same plots over and over. AND the boys were just kind of nasty to him all the time when it seems like they should, oh, you know, acknowledged that he was their shady little buddy. I don't begrudge them their paychecks and hope they also are having careers in productions of shakespeare and small independent films. I may be hallucinating but hasn't Crowley pulled that rat trick before? Maybe if they didn't kill off all the female characters consistently they'd have some different people to liven things up.

Well, yeah. also he was always represented as a really poor, poorly liked boss in hell. That got old.

You are correct on all counts. I also realize that, although I am female and try to be sensitive to these things, I grew up reading stories that had very few women or female protagonists. I enjoy them, I get defensive of strong ones, but I am, perhaps unfortunately, able to take the male point of view in a story and not worry about it overmuch.

I think, if I am not mistaken, that the librarian's head was on a man's body. Posed in, etc. I think it could be argued that Gordon and Albert and Denise were always like that, it just seems more noticeable now. I think you can also, potentially, argue that Bob is a male predator. That this is a continuation of something that was made 26 years ago and has to make some connection with the past. However, you do make some excellent points. Most of Lynch's work does take place some place in the neo 50s where 40s Noir went to live out the remainder of its life in the style to which it had become accustomed. A lot of the characters are misogynistic, a lot of the women are victims and the butts of jokes, men dressed as women survive by making themselves the butts of jokes. I see your point and will try to figure out, as I watch this, what could be done better.

I thought he was setting up a story of the black lodge having a larger sphere of influence than actually thought and showing us a story similar to the first one, the twin peaks LP murder, happening today, while showing the weight of what happened to Cooper and teasing us will old places and old people, but not giving them over at once. I suspect the fbi and cooper will turn up in twin peaks and that is when we will rediscover it, they just aren't there yet.

Don't take this as a challenge, I'm actually confused by what you mean by his sexual politics not aging well? Except for Ben, who one might guess had been schooled by Audrey during the intervening years, it didn't really come up. He did kill a named professional woman who we never saw alive, the neighbor was a ditz, a woman of color was a prostitute whose empathy went only so far and no farther, the wife cheated on her cheating husband, etc, but the men don't come across any better in my opinion. In the first one the women had some pretty strong roles, give them a little time to see if that happens again.

Dark Cooper had made arrangements to stay outside the dark lodge, Dougie was that arrangement. He wasn't human, he was some sort of homuculus and once he entered the dark lodge he fell apart like a cheap suit in a monsoon.

I loved the music, the interesting songs and the interesting bands and the noise in the black lodge, New York, the glass box, the static that indicated the spreading presence of evil. (and while they approached the glass box in New York I almost turned off the sound because it was so grating, but I didn't because I knew there had to be a reason). I like that the speakers spread evil, like propaganda and bad political agendas, and that they are, of course, things that are everywhere. I liked that we got the pretty coherent and engaging murder mystery, similar to the first Laura Palmer mystery, to tell something like the history without exposition. I liked that Dark Cooper and Light Cooper, looked like sufficiently different people, like the picture of Dorian Gray, Dark Cooper seems larger in size, as if he has kept growing like a lizard. I liked that the people we met in Twin Peaks haven't changed all that much, I liked that Ben's assistant was a little bit like Audrey in appearance, and that Ben of all people chewed out Jerry for Sexism. I liked that Jerry still focuses on food. The arm/tree was odd, but I suspect that the arm will be a recurring theme. I wonder if the tree will gain ornaments, because how cool a product tie in could that be? I like that there are still places, like the diner, that are still to be explored. I was happy the log lady managed to do some filming.

South Dakota, also kind of creepy? I think the first shows were to tell us that the evil has spread, the black lodge (etc) is not just a weird wood and an oddness in Washington, but it is evil that can get everywhere.

Of course the movie was funded by fans and it is the only Veronica Mars episode/book that is structured like a romance, and the fans wanted it and deserved it, since they funded the movie. Um, still, it gives the fans a representative in the form of Ruby Jetson, which could be called a pretty heavy handed dig (logan's shudder when he walks away from the hug is priceless). also worth noting that Thomas has said several times that a miniseries, if it happens, will not be fan funded. I don't believe Marti Noxon is sorry about season six of Buffy and I think Logan and Veronica ending up together is forced, but I'm a cynic (and season six is my favorite, everything comes due). I saw the movie before I had seen/read anything about Veronica Mars at all, except whatever decided me not to watch it in the first place (already watching too much television, no supernatural element). I was taken to it by someone who also had never watched any of Veronica Mars either, because they had seen an article somewhere. In retrospect we understood it fairly well, the punch to Madison, Dick having some history that explained Logan being with him, the dynamic that made Logan want to prove to Veronica that he had turned his life around, Keith and Veronica's relationship, all came through. We didn't get a lot of romantic attraction, though, and I know both actors can seem to have real chemistry with a variety of people (the moment in the Good Place when Eleanor looks at Chidi as a romantic interest; in supernatural season 7 when Dohring, playing the totally evil but in love time traveling God). Watching it again, I think Logan doesn't even think she would be interested in him until she jumps him, and probably just thinks she is distracting herself, and Veronica seems to be using the situation to reevaluate her life. I just tend to think it was never really a story in the romance genre, although she had romantic interests, and the movie was an anomaly that ended up proving the point, since the actual point where they become a real couple is two separate moments in MKAT, Veronica's commitment is while Logan isn't even on the continent. The decisions were never made for reasons of romance. Anyway, enough from me. I respect your opinion and it is clearly my problem that I came into this fandom late and like Veronica a lot more than I like Logan.

Sunnydale, 38,000 inhabitants, one small main street, twelve huge Gothic cemeteries. And a hell mouth... It might make more sense if Riverdale proves to be close to a larger city, Like Neptune is close to LA and San Diego.

I grew up in Minnesota and I would chop wood in a long sleeved shirt and down vest, like a sensible luddite, and I seem to make some adjustment to my attitude when it falls below 0 degrees F that keeps me comfortable, but I don't remember ever seeing summer dresses in the middle of winter in my high school.

Not exactly, but I think the term 'small town' threw me, anyway. I would think of that as large town....Sorry if offended. As a bruinsfan aren't you on a coast?

That *is*the weirdest thing, usually high schools, especially big, vibrant ones like this (that aren't ones that include all the grades) in rural areas pull from several towns. I remember Sabrina is from the town over in the comic, I don't remember if her town had a 'rival' school. Two high schools with that many kids in each that don't know each other, don't combine for sports and so on, means a large and vibrant community. It is beginning to look like a small city. Would one dui at a point in fred's life when he could be assumed to be vulnerable, no one hurt that we heard of, really justify moving Jughead from the place he was living, his best friend and his school district? Also, isn't jughead old enough to make that decision? He must be at least 16 or they wouldn't be showing him preparing to have sex on national television?

So far the Serpents are looking fairly good. Didn't FP say they were only selling Marijuana in small quantities, so the drug moving was likely not the group but a couple of bad guys (and FP was trying to figure out what was bad in his organization?) Loyal and kind to their children. Willing to work for a friend, the work crew things. Owning up to past mistakes. Sacrificing for others. Compare with the Blossom's cruelty to their children and contribution, probable, to the opioid epidemic, Veronica's mother running back to her comfortable amoral existance, the richer section of town ready to cut out the more vulnerable section to be more comfortable in their own places. Jughead was certainly welcomed by the kids, much more than he was in Riverside High. Question is, does Betty have the guts to follow him down the rabbit hole? I'm guessing only to an extent. At some point, though, she'll find out her family's connections to the 'dark side' of town. I'm sure the serpents aren't perfect, gang after all, by the way. We'll find out their problems, which probably have to do (like in the other side of town) with the weaknesses and backgrounds of individual. Hey! Hotdog! It's been so long since I've read VC Andrews.....Is she related to Archie :-)

I like the actor well enough, he really hasn't done much, most of it the same and he may not have much range, but I think he is good within that range. He has a sense of his physical presence in a sign and acts off what is happening around him, I like actors who have the nonverbal part down. I agree about scientology, but he appears to have been raised in scientology in a large, close, rich family and have married young, he was married in V Mars, and has three kids, so he has a lot to lose if he walks away and is ostracized. It is a cult and they don't make it easy. Anyway, it is different than walking in off the street and saying, why yes, I will give these good people all my money and entrap my family. That said, I'm still struggling with Neil Gaiman's connections. Clearly not stupid, in any case. I think Gaiman is also someone raised in it, who may or may not still be at all active. I dunno. Yuck.

Yeah, he is playing Vivian Stoll's brother and shows up, I think, two episodes from now, and will be around at least until the end of the season.

Or one zombie going from bar to bar having fights

I wonder if this is the in for Jason Dohring's character, his sister wants to continue with Zombies, he wants to cure them? He'd have to have some way to find out about the cure, though. Maybe Natalie? Well, if there aren't any humans there is no one to eat. The cure would be very valuable to zombies who want to stay sentient during the zombie apocalypse (without being food themselves). Maybe they wouldn't need as much for the visions, so you could sell some brains as drugs and the duller ones as food.

I assume botox, but she looked like someone who had a stroke. One side of her face was not responding as well as the other. I suppose that is possible, too. I thought she did all right in the part she was given, but it could have been anybody. Maybe she'll get more, later.

Who are paid off in sausage and bacon.

This message was a good analysis, Lady Calypso. With Free Comic Book day yesterday I read some Archie Comics and realize that Jughead is a much better character in the television show, more depth, a future. I hope we learn more about Jughead's mother and Jellybean and why they rejected him?

We do know that Jason was preferred and it is implied that this is a good part of why she is unpredictable, vindictive, etc. We don't know anything much about Jason as a person. Was he a centered individual who used the unconditional love given to him over his sister to become something completely other than she is, and would this have been obvious to 'the board', which we saw talking of who would take over the business at the soiree with Archie present? Or are they assuming that youth sports will make a man who understands how to behave in the boardroom in the future, which believe me a lot of people do believe in (the NFL not withstanding). It is possible that the contigent of the board so concerned were mob contacts and that the Blossom fortunes depend on that at this time, so if they see the Blossoms as a bad bet Cliff feared they would pull their business and put it somewhere else.

The point of Buffy is she is a stereotypical girl/woman. The point of Veronica is that she is a stereotypical boy/man in a female body. They both have things to say about how we see women in society. Different things, though, in spite of their superficial similarities. Both end on exactly the same note, though. No running, a clear move into the future and I think we are given to believe it is a future that involves love and heroism. Now, the movie, paid for by fans, did Veronica no kindnesses. Returning to Neptune and staying to be a PI when on the verge of finishing school to start a new life (which didn't necessarily have to be corporate law) is the only time she runs for real in the entire saga.